+ Posted by GlassWalls on Sep 08, 2010 // PlayStation Home Community Specialist

Firstly, to commemorate a very special moment in gaming history, we have a special video celebrating the 15-year anniversary of PlayStation up for you to enjoy in the Theater. It’s been a long time since we started, and I hope you’ll join us in celebrating our “birthday.” As a party favor, each person who checks out the video will get a commemorative ornament, nodding praise to the platform that started it all.

Bomberman fans unite! Visit the new Hudson Gate game space when it is released in PlayStation Home this Thursday, September 9th. Explore the “discs” of this futuristic space and place your bets on the regular Dolphy races, unlock unique rewards, and even pick up Bomberman outfits. Purchase your own Dolphy Room Apartment, where you can raise your very own Dolphy to take part in races. Raise your Dolphy right and you’ll be rewarded as it streaks its way to victory!

Also this week, we have more MAG items including the RAVEN armor now available to further complete your collection. Lockwood’s sweet generosity is definitely not lacking this week either. This week, you’ll find the Lollipop collection of outfits or both male and female, a ton of new furniture and for the ladies, a luxury leather handbag delivering some serious bling in a diamond ring.

Finally, we have a new partnership in the Home Community Theater to announce — GamerIndepth!

As one of Home’s longest-running fan groups, it seemed only natural to further connect with them. I was able to get a burning question answered by several members of GamerIndepth.

GlassWalls: “I have a question for each of you. You’ve all been supporters of Home for a long time, and now we’re partnering up in the Community Theater. Where do you see the future for both of us heading?”

From Narde15: “Home is such a unique and cutting-edge application that I don’t know how to answer that question. What I can say is that as long as GamerIndepth is around it will keep its ear to the ground and continue to shine the spotlight on everyone making positive noise in PlayStation Home. That’s what we’ve always been about and with the support of the Home Team and the community, we’re not going to limit ourselves.”

From Hippe: “The future looks bright for ALL those that love Home. The future of both Home as an application and the community depends on the bonds we establish with each other. The Home of tomorrow will not be the Home of today. It continues to evolve daily and I hope GamerIndepth can be a part of that evolution every step of the way.”

From homeboy79: “The future of Home looks brighter everyday. The community’s involvement in Home is ultimately key to its success. This is where we come in. I’m confident that together we will continue to provide the highest quality of media and material that is for the community, by the community.”

From YowsahsItsMeesh: “Being an avid Home user soon after open beta was released it has truly been an experience to watch Home evolve into what it has become today….I can definitely see future partnerships such as ours, drawing in more gamers and non-gamers alike, and taking social gaming to an entirely new level.”

There you have it. Go check out their first video playing now in the Home Community Theater.

Home has come a long way but it has also done a lot of mistakes… and as someone who was a long time fan and supporter, I’ve stopped visiting Home regularly. Hopefully it will improve in the future so that I decide to return more often but as it is right now, it needs to do something to become a more stable and speedy process before I consider giving it my support again.

We’re always improving and evolving the platform, not to mention bringing new content each and every week. With the recent client updates we reduced load times significantly and streamlined the whole experience. If you haven’t been in Home in a while, come on back in!

My Sweet Spot just got a little more sweeterrrr!!!!! This is a great update! I never thought I’d see the Hudson Dolphy in our USA HOME!! SWEEEEET!!! Happy BDay SONY PS!!!!!!! I have no way to express my LUV 4 U!!

Awesome PS1 ornament :D do u think in the future we can get a PS2 and PS3? Is there ant chance of an Irem update like new clothes or 1 of the other 4 spaces we don’t have? we still need the rest of the school uniforms.

This is my first time leaving a comment on the Blog…however, I have been following the Blog, and the commentaries, for many months now. I have to say that it is a controversy within itself..at least the commentaries are! LOL! But, I am impressed with this weeks update in HOME…if it really happens. I, as a female, have been disappointed lately in the male dominated updates. But, that said, I also know that the females have had many updates that were just female updates. This update is really, really looking good…and I’m so impressed that I had to comment. We are getting not only a new public space, private space, nice ornament celebrating the anniversary, handbags for the ladies, more MAG costumes for the guys, lollipop outfits AND FURNITURE! Awesome!! * Applauds loudly* Very nice update for a change! On another quick note..I am also aware that JP has some of the most awesome and realistic clothes…I know most of them are IREM related (at least the neatest ones,) and I know IREM is based in JP…but, can’t someone BEG them to SHARE the wealth??? Pleeeeeeese??? If you want to make the girls happy…get us some of the clothes that other countries have..they are sooo HOT!

Sorry GlassWalls but I have been in Home recently. Part of my fun was dressing up my avatars or creating new ones and while loading up spaces is a lot faster than it used to be, the wardrobe’s load times are just plain ridiculous in comparison and totally ruins the experience. Not to mention that Home freezes my PS3 a heck of a lot more than it should (well really, it shouldn’t be freezing it at all), forcing me to always do a hard reset.

I really enjoyed Home but I believe it was around the 1.30 update that things started really going downhill for Home in my opinion. The content updates do seem great but if the actual service itself is not, then there’s really no point in constantly fighting with it to experience what Home has to offer.

@GlassWalls I think that some in the forum community were looking for a PS3 that functioned as a game launching appliance. And yes like everyone else it will be great to get the grandfather of the PS3 into my apartment space Thursday.

I think what the community would really rallye around is an appliance TV that showed these videos in personal spaces instead of going to the theatre every time, at least make them active in ClubHouses!!!

First,congratulations to GamerIndepth, this is awesome!*grabs bottle champagne* cant wait to see the first show.
Lockwood’s update gonna make many females happy no doubts.
glassWalls:thanks for this great update.

So is there any chance that the American version of Home will ever get the Demon’s Souls costumes that are available on the Japanese version of Home? As a huge fan of the game, I was disappointed to learn that the outfits I want aren’t available to me as I don’t live in Japan.

Happy B-Day PlayStation! I would just like to say you are the longest running game console IN MY LIFE! I was born in June of 1995, and we got a PSX whenit came out. I have memories (faint,but memories) of sitting by my dad as he played Resident Evil, and my sister as she played Crash Bandicoot. Good times I owe to you! ▲○X□ Rules!

OMG GAMER INDEPTH AND PS HOME THIS IS LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE! Ever since I was on The Tester and Jersquall and Hippe asked me for an interview I have been hooked on what they and the GI crew have been doing. It’s good to see some community support and I am happy to see GI evolve even more. With more involvement with the community I feel that PlayStation is making milestones in terms of giving the people what they want and in turn the people who love PlayStation will continue to show support for more products in the future. Ah synergy…I LOVE IT!

Can we PLEASE have back the ability to buffer the entire video in places like the theater instead of streaming everything!? I’m sick of suffering through videos 2 seconds at a time because my connection isn’t fast enough to play through it live! It’s irritating and it wastes bandwidth if the video ends and starts streaming again.

Cool, I had no idea that the PS1 was released on the 9th of September as that is my birthday. I may have to visit home and check out the latest updates. Any word on EA Sports showing some NHL love in Home? There are NFL jerseys and the like, so I was hoping for hockey jerseys to show my BlackHawk pride.